Letter: Bustang fees should be treated as taxes
Editor:
I feel that transferring highway funds collected as a “fee” to pay for roads to a mass transit program such as Bustang makes the fee become a tax and refundable under TABOR.
Should there be a class action lawsuit on behalf of Colorado drivers to cancel the Bustang that benefits people other than those paying the auto registration fees that were raised without voter approval?
Jerald Miller
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